OBAMA IN OHIO: "We know what will happen if we fail to act." (Video & Transcript)

[kpete]

This status quo on health care is simply unsustainable. We cannot have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people. We know what will happen if we fail to act. We know our government will be plunged deeper into debt. We know millions more people will lose coverage. And we know that rising costs will saddle millions more families with unaffordable expenses – and will force many small businesses to drop coverage altogether. A study just came out yesterday – a non-partisan study – which found that without reform, premiums could more than double for individuals and families over the next decade. Family policies could pass $25,000. Can you afford that?

VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT:
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery

Monday, March 15, 2010

Strongsville, Ohio
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/15/846399/-Health-care-high-noon:-Obama-in-Ohio

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

1. msnbc and cnn are there, fox is awol

someone in the audience fainted.

[EFerrari]

2. If these insurance companies are so bad, why is he forcing everyone to buy insurance?

This doesn't even make sense.

[leftstreet]

3. The cognitive dissonance, it BURNS

Apparently if you feed the beast, it won't bite as hard?

:shrug:


er...

:mad:

[dflprincess]

5. Especially when he used to say we needed a public option to "keep them honest"

:shrug:

[Marr]

10. Well said.

It's ludicrous.

'This industry is horrible. We need to make them the official conduit for health care!'

They're propping up that corrupt industry by tying it to government, just as it's own weight is threatening to bring it down. It's like a replay of the banking bailouts.

[jonnyblitz]

12. please don't burden their beautiful minds during the pep rally!

:spank:

[dflprincess]

4. "We know what will happen if we fail to act"

The insurance companies will collapse of their own weight if they're not handed new victims to fleece and millions of tax dollars.

[leftstreet]

6. Insurance Profit Protection Terra Threat Level: Red

Take cover!

[Mari333]

8. never took my plastic fantastic anti terra duct tape off my house!!

[Mari333]

7. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Gin]

9. just heard him say if you can't afford coverage you will get a tax break

I thought it was a direct subsidy...not a tax break

[Mari333]

11. they keep changing their stories

at this point I would rather watch The Biggest Loser as an actual TV show rather than watch the biggest losers on Capitol Hill lie to us over and over and over.

[EFerrari]

13. What about when people can't afford the co-pays?

:shrug:

[leftstreet]

15. Uh...wasn't that McCain's plan?

:shrug:

[demtenjeep]

14. my child is circling the air above because of Obama being in Cleveland

They texted me a little while ago and said the pilot told them they could be circling 3-5 hours


Needless to say, they are a little annoyed.